WALLDORF — SuccessFactors, an SAP SE company, today announced that it has once more been positioned as a leader in IDC’s “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Talent Management 2014 Vendor Assessment.” The report evaluated software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions from SuccessFactors and recognized the company as a leader in cloud-based talent management software based on its product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies and current and future market success. SuccessFactors’ key strengths include market momentum, depth of the portfolio and global reach.

The IDC MarketScape report assesses vendors’ integrated talent management, recruiting, learning, compensation and performance solutions through the IDC MarketScape model. According to the report, “SuccessFactors is a leading provider of cloud-based HCM software, and in addition to comprehensive talent solutions including: Performance & Goals, Recruiting, Onboarding, Compensation, Succession & Development and Learning, also delivers Core HR & Payroll — Employee Central — as well as Workforce Analytics and Planning.”*

SuccessFactors is committed to delivering integrated, cloud-based solutions that provide companies with the flexibility and usability to engage and optimize their workforce in line with their business goals. Businesses of all sizes around the world are using them to deliver results.

“By implementing an integrated suite of SuccessFactors solutions, we made the employee experience seamless from recruitment through career development,” said Marc Farrugia, director of Human Resources at Sun Communities, Inc. “SuccessFactors Employee Central is our most flexible HR tool, and it is the number one resource for our team. We simplified the HR environment, and now we make better business decisions. We knew we made the right choice with SuccessFactors, and we congratulate them on this noteworthy leadership recognition.”

“Our focus is squarely on delivering solutions that foster new levels of employee engagement and collaboration and that create business advantages for our customers,” said Mike Ettling, president of the HR line of business at SuccessFactors, an SAP company. “We are pleased to be recognized in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Integrated Talent Management for our efforts as we continue to invest in end-to-end solutions and differentiated services that are truly a mile wide and a mile deep.”

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

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